The 5 Best Types of Work From Home if You need a Flexible Schedule

Work from home Jobs that work with Your need for a Flexible schedule!

With today’s ups and down’s its nice to know there are lots of legitimate options to earn money from home – anytime of day or night – flexible schedule, yay! – whenever you are available and ready to earn.

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Data Entry

Can you type quickly with next to no errors? This might be the job just for you as it offers you the ability to create a flexible schedule, whenever you want to earn extra cash!

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Many of these types of jobs can be seasonal and often, if not on this list, could potentially be scams. Concerned about how to spot scams? Read my article here.

Be prepared to either prove how quickly you can type or work on those skills here for free!

Companies that offer Data Entry positions:

ClickWorker: According to their site, “Clickworker.com hires freelancers globally to work at home in data entry, translation, writing and research jobs via a crowd-sourcing platform.” Apply here. “How it works: You can sign up as a Clickworker free of charge. You work independently, your schedule is flexible and all you need is a computer and/or mobile device with an Internet connection. You decide when and how much you want to work – on a freelance basis.”

MicroWorkers: To locate data entry opportunities with MicroWorkers, simply sign up on their site here then follow their instructions – “click on the Tasks link and browse through the hundreds of listed tasks. Each task will display a set of instructions, the time to complete it and the amount you will earn for finishing the job. If you believe you can finish the task, click on “I accept this job” to accept this job, and the page will display a form where you can enter the proof required by the Employer. Otherwise, click on “Not interested in this job” if you do not wish to perform the job.””

Dion Data: Instructions to apply are located here and they ask that you meet these requirements:

Zirtual – Virtual Assistant work that could very likely include data entry. To apply you send an email to jobs@zirtual.com . For more information you can visit their website: https://www.zirtual.com/zirtual-assistants

The SmartCrowd: Got skills and looking for a place to use them to make cash from home all while taking advantage of flexible hours? Rather than being judged on a resume or experience, take a quick evaluation and get work based on your results. Apply here. Requirements:

“You must be at least 18 years of age.

Your country of residence must be your uninterrupted residence for the duration of your participation in the Lionbridge crowd.

You must complete at least one placement evaluation before you can be considered for work. You will only be allowed to work on those tasks related to the talent you’ve demonstrated. The higher you score, the greater your chance to take on tasks and be paid for work!”

Do you work from home doing data entry for one of these companies? Or perhaps have one to add to the list? Add your comments below!

Transcription

Transcription is similar to Data Entry in that you are typing up data – only in transcription it is almost always conversations of some sort rather than numbers or data.

How to get this Flexible Schedule type Work From Home position:

Be prepared to either prove how quickly you can type or work on those skills here for free!

Have a keen ear for multiple speakers and be ready to pick them out.

Companies that offer transcriptions positions

1 888 Type it up – This transcription service pays among the highest that we’ve ever found. Here’s what they have to say “transcriptionists make $36 to $180 per audio hour, and we strive to pay at least $1 to $2 per audio minute ($60 to $120 per audio hour) and higher when possible.” Apply here.

Rev – Make money weekly typing (paid via PayPal)! As you do more and more assignments accurately you make more. You can do as much or as little as you want. Apply here. Pay starts out at $ 0.40 – 0.65/ cents per audio minute and goes up from there. “As a rookie, all of your projects will be sent to Quality Control to provide you feedback on your work. The scores you receive from Quality Control determine your metrics and are very important. You will need to maintain certain metrics to continue working with Rev.” After 100 audio minutes transcribed you are eligible to get a pay raise!

CastingWords– “Transcribe, edit, and complete other short jobs online, at your own pace. Work as much or as little as you want, when you want.” Apply here.

TranscribeMe – Pays the highest in the industry according to their site as of the time of this writing: “We have the industry’s best rates, with earnings starting at $20 per audio hour and top monthly earnings at $2,200 (average monthly earnings are $250). Transcriptionists with specialized backgrounds in Medical & Legal are paid a higher rate.” Apply here.

GMR Transcription – “Transcription of a variety of topics including academic, legal, business, and more. You can create your own schedule and pick and choose how much work you take from us. No experience necessary.” Apply here.

Virtual Assisting

Have a varied set of skills from writing to data entry to building Excel spreadsheets or other skills? Try your hand at Virtual Assisting! You can typically work as much or as little as you like,create a flexible schedule around your lifestyle needs and you’ll soon develop a nice base of clients that will give you an ebb and flow of interesting work!

VickyVirtual – Traditional type of job application to work from home as a virtual assistant. Apply here.

Fancy Hands – According to their website: “If you have fast internet connection and the ability to use common websites and software, this could be a lot of fun. We’re looking for smart people who want to help build a great company and get paid. Keep reading if you’re interested. Are you good on the phone and great at internet research? This could be the perfect position for you… Important You need to have an audio headset (with a microphone) to do this job (in some cases iPhone headphones work just fine). To start, you’ll get paid per task depending on how quickly the task is finished, what time of day it is, and how complicated the task is. For example, let’s say you have 5 different tasks to make reservations at a restaurant. To start, tasks are worth anywhere from $3.00 to $7 per task and go up from there. If interested, you may be promoted to a managerial type position, managing other assistants and helping ensure everything runs smoothly. Payments go out every other week (on Tuesday) via Dwolla”

Time, etc. – Competitive with a longer application but certainly not impossible to get hired. Pays $11/ hour. Apply here.

LifeBushido – “Lifebushido believes that people at home, such as stay-at-home-moms, are an incredibly capable and vastly underutilized group of people for getting great work completed.

The work involves all the work needed to run the ventures listed on this website.

The work starts at 5 hours per week. If your work is good, you can increase to up to 20 hours per week. After a few months, we mutually explore your unique talents and the needs of Lifebushido ventures to determine the best work to fit your unique talents.

We hire people from around the world. Lifebushido is run solely by people working part-time from home around the world.

If interested in finding out more information and applying for a job, please email jobs@lifebushido.com. You will receive an email to get details about our company and start the job application process.”

Assistant Match – Here you can register to become a Virtual Assistant where, if chosen to proceed, you’ll talk to an account manager and be matched with those in need of VA services. Apply here.

Belay – Hiring Virtual Assistants to work as much or as little as they like! 5 years combined experience as a virtual assistant, project manager or in a support type role. Apply here.

Freelance Writing

This profession can be worked whenever you have the time so it’s awesome if you need a flexible schedule to work and depending upon how much work you want to take on, you can scale this up to a full-time thing!

Domainite – Send them a writing sample after following their instructions. Apply here.

Great Content – “If you love to write, can turn your mind to a wide variety of subjects and can work effectively with clients from around the world, you could be the ideal fit for our pool of writing talent. Apply to join and within days you could be taking on orders from clients as diverse as property firms to fashion labels.

Pure Content – Competitive but certainly if you feel you can produce high quality content! (Did I mention that I toats believe in you? 🙂 ) Send your resume to freelance@purecontent.com with a sample of your writing. They also noted: “If you would like to become an editor, we will send you a test piece to complete.”

Online writing jobs – Get paid just for applying! all accepted pieces get paid $10! Even if you don’t technically have experience you can use their writing instructions to create a piece of content for them. Apply here.

Crowd Content – According to their site they are offering these work from home opportunities (as of the time of this writing):

“Writer – Enterprise Clients

Editor – Enterprise Clients

Writer – Bloomingdale’s Category Descriptions (Closed)

Writer – Marketplace

Writer – Best Buy Product Descriptions

Editor – Best Buy Product Descriptions

Editor – Marketplace

Note: if a Work Opportunity you are interested in is currently “Closed”, you can still create your Worker Account and apply for the opportunity later when it opens up.” Apply here.

eZdia – “Our projects range from product descriptions to blog posts to in-depth technical articles. Most of the current projects are for e-commerce content. You’ll be paid on a per word agreement, based on the word count of the final draft. The amount varies from project to project. Usually we have plenty of work available; however, the amount of work does rise and fall with the number of orders we get from our clients.” Apply here.

In addition to these, consider checking out the ProBlogger job board here. There are tons of clients just waiting to see how you can help them build their businesses and more!

Search Engine and Social Media Evaluation

Appen – Frequently has projects that, though competitive, allow you to use your Facebook feed to help them find out what kind of content is most popular. At the time I personally held this position, it paid over $13/ hour. The position is called Social Media Evaluator.

Appen also hires Search Engine Evaluators in which you’ll help them discern if search engines are producing relevant results.

Lionbridge* is similar to Appen in that they also have positions open for Social Media evaluators and Search Engine Evaluators. Click here for their jobs pages so you can apply!

Leapforce* – According to their job opportunities page they are “experiencing unprecedented demand and growth for qualified home-based independent agents. We are looking for highly educated individuals for an exciting work from home opportunity. Applicants must be self motivated and internet savvy. This is an opportunity to evaluate and improve search engine results for some of the world’s largest internet search engine companies.”

iSoftstone* – Various project based work in line with search engine and/or social media evaluation. Check out their job opportunities page as there is a wide variety available at any given time.

What questions of concerns do you have about obtaining a work from home position with a flexible schedule? Do you have questions or suggestions for companies we should add to this list? Leave a comment below! I’m here to help.

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